Oenas

This article is about the Blister beetle genus Oenas. For the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, see Unas.

Oenas is a genus of blister beetle related to the well-known Lytta vesicatoria (a.k.a. "Spanish Fly").^[1][2] The genus is Mediterranean in its distribution (from Morocco & Spain, east to Caucasus, Palestine & Iran).^[1]

Oenas
Oenas afer
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Meloidae
Tribe:	Lyttini
Genus:	Oenas Latreille, 1802
Type species
Meloe afer Linnaeus, 1767